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Addressing Challenges in Education Today

Explore the current education system in America, including funding issues, teacher competence, and powerful unions. Delve into the impact of underprivileged environments on standardized assessments and the achievement gap. Discover the value of education, the influence of poverty on learning, and proposed solutions for a more inclusive and effective educational model. Technology's role in learning, innovative teaching methods, and examples of 'Edutainment' are also examined.

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Addressing Challenges in Education Today

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  1. Tackling Education in a Diverse World Tiara Bates

  2. Current Education System in America • Panoptical • Funding issues • Incompetent teachers • Powerful unions • Underprivileged environment

  3. Standardized assessments • Fair? • Most do not take into account external factors that put some children at a disadvantage • Number of parents living in the home, parents’ educational background, type of community, and poverty rate main variables in achievement gap • Cookie- cutter curriculums that leaves little time for higher learning or creative innovation

  4. Value of Education • Department of Education • 2010 budget: $46.7 billion • $38.3 billion to elementary and secondary schools • $3.6 billion to postsecondary schools

  5. Poverty • Disparaging factors in impoverished areas: • Parents not able to contribute • Poor neighborhood schools doubling as training grounds for new inexperienced teachers • Numbers: • 87% non- Black children in poor neighborhoods will graduate high school, compared to 95% who live in affluent neighborhoods • 76% Black children in poor areas of country will graduate high school, compared to 96% who live in affluent neighborhoods

  6. Solution? • New educational system that acknowledges external adversities of students • Introduces different ways of learning to cater to each child • Mentor program to promote healthy relationships that can reach outside boundaries

  7. Technology to Learn • Play is a very serious matter....It is an expression of our creativity; and creativity is at the very root of our ability to learn, to cope, and to become whatever we may be. (Rogers & Sharapan, 1994, p.1

  8. Current Examples of ‘Edutainment’

  9. Technological aids for learning

  10. The field trip re-envisioned • Hands on experience on subjects learned • Vocational or specialty schools have greater roles • Internships at earlier age • Outcome= students will be more prepared to apply knowledge and experience

  11. New Ways of Teaching • Theory of Multiple Intelligence • Innovate creativity from teachers to stimulate students capabilities of learning through multiple mediums • Big Bang Theory clip: Sheldon in Ball Pit • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MrDe_2eW10

  12. Other proposals/ sustains • Shorter class periods • Required amount of excursions in every subject • More attainable external resources for students and faculty

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